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Apparently unpublished manuscript of `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ by James Thomson of Dundee.
Apparently unpublished work entitled "Mélographie, ou l'art d'écrire la musique comme le discours, par Joseph Delurtier".
The work describes a method of notation by stenographic symbols written on one line, giving many examples of its use.
Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.
With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.
Archives of the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, Edinburgh Branch.
Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.
The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.
`Argenis` by John Barclay: an Icelandic translation by Jón Einarsson.
Armorial of James Workman.
Armorial traditionally associated with Sir Robert Forman, Lord Lyon from 1555 to 1567
Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn in trick.
`Arnbiörg æruprydd dandis kona á Vestfiördum Islands` by Björn Haldórsson, with a Danish translation by Jón Ólafsson.
Ars dictaminis of Giovanni di Buonandrea, with gloss, written in Italy.
Begins 'Bononie natus nataii dum sttidet urbe'; gloss begins 'Quid est Rethorica nisi ratio benedicendi'. The manuscript is incomplete, breaking off in the section on 'Petitio'.
A cutting from the sale catalogue of Maggs Bros, February 1960[?], number 67, is inserted describing the text as the work of Johannes de Bologna. Written in brown ink by one scribe, the text in littera semi-gothica textualis and the gloss in cursiva libraria. Spaces have been left for initials.
Articles, manuscripts and typescripts of papers on scientific subjects by Lord Kames, Prof John McLean Thompson, William Walker and others.
Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).
'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces
Author's manuscript and printed proof of ‘An anthology of Scottish history’ from 1093 to 1746, being a list of characters, etc., prepared by Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, for the pageant given at the Scottish National Exhibition, 1908.
Author`s manuscript of "The Skipper of Barncraig" by Gabriel Setoun [Thomas Nicoll Hepburn].
Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.
Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.
Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.
Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.
Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.
A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).
Autograph draft score and final version of Edward Harper, "Launch whan ye can", for alto, tenor and piano (words by William Soutar).
Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.
A leaf is torn out after folio 16.
What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.
Autograph letters of David Livingstone to various correspondents.
Autograph letters to Charles Lawson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from eminent persons in professional, civil and commercial life, being replies to invitations and other letters.
Autograph manuscript of a French biography of Sir David Wilkie by the art historian, Baron Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887).
The work is undated and apparently unpublished.